Pet Leveling

[Rethel-netherwind]

Tamed Broken Tooth tonight, better late then never. Any suggestion on how to level him at this point?

[Balindrakk-bloodsail-buccaneers]

Kill green mobs. Put cower on and kite kite kite

[Narisa-azuresong]

I level my pets by killing mobs. The more time the pet spends fighting, the faster the pet levels.

I read somewhere that someone keeps clicking on his pet skill, and thinks that speeds it up.

I’ve noticed that if the pet is much lower than me, it levels faster.

[Espur-whitemane]

I took my level 20 wolf to endgame dungeons and it got levels passively.

[Arkdown-atiesh]

Don’t lower level pets have higher aggro radius?

[Espur-whitemane]

Surprisingly, not really. Other than when you’re trying to sneak past mobs, you don’t really have any issue. If you do need to just dismiss it. Or make it stay and run far enough (this is also good when jumping off places rather than dismissing to save happiness).

[Pookey-kromcrush]

Could always teach prowl and just stealth him when you are doing dungeons. Just be careful because you will aggro more trash. Also I find it easier to just grind. Grind in felwood. Raise your rep with timber maw. On the camp in the south. Took my level 50 pet 5 hours to get to 55. I generally got a level an hour and then a level for myself. It doesn’t matter if the pet doesnt hold aggro they generally go down in a few shots then tank thier hits in melee. Raise your defense and melee skill.

[Rethel-netherwind]

Won’t the mobs see through it regardless though because of the level difference?

Killing green mobs and kiting sounds great except you need a lot of room and your DPS is so low when kiting that I don’t think it’s that feasible.

[Tristany-pagle]

Quoting my post form another thread that is relevant:

@Tristany-pagle

The issue with a lower level pet and higher level hunter is that it’s slow going grinding mobs without the pet’s DPS and aggro to keep them at range.

I recently did the grind with a Worg from SFK for his 1.1 attack speed. It was level 19… and I was 37. (I had also just tamed Brokentooth… but we were same level so no issue there.

You have to kill mobs that are at least green to you… and the lowest you can go is 8 levels lower. Initially this is exactly what you want to do… Why? so you can kill it faster… a the pet will miss it’s attacks and cannot keep aggro.

Once you get within 11 levels of your pet… start killing mobs 3-4 levels above your pet… they will be within 8 levels of you then… but the pet can hold a little aggro and allow you to kill it faster and gain more EXP.

The more EXP YOU gain, the more it gains. So rested XP is VERY desirable… as you get double XP from those green mobs at first.

Another tip is to try and find areas with ranged mobs like casters, archers, or spear throwers. Why? Because they stay at range, and you put out more range damage than melee. They often have less armor so die faster. For example… Naga casters are good… they’ll hit you for nothing and die pretty fast. Don’t let your pet die… a dead pet will not get the EXP for the kill.

The fastest method is to run instances with a strong group… ones who could do well even without you there. Put pet on passive and stay well back form the group. You will get the most EXP, and thus so will your pet, with the least amount of negative effects from having to solo melee mobs.

[Tristany-pagle]

Absolutely untrue. A pet ONLY gains exp when as you gain EXP… the only way to increase the rate in which a pet gains exp is to increase yours… so EXP buffs, rest EXP etc… all contribute to higher EXP gains for your pet.

[Igraine-fairbanks]

I read somewhere that someone keeps clicking on his pet skill, and thinks that speeds it up.

Isn’t that just to learn the skill faster?